Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Emergency department presentation time |
| METEOR identifier: | 746098 |
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| Definition: | The time at which a patient presents to an emergency department for the delivery of service, expressed as hhmm. |
| Data Element Concept: | Emergency department stay—presentation time |
Value domain attributes | ||||
Representational attributes | ||||
| Representation class: | Time | |||
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| Data type: | Date/Time | |||
| Format: | hhmm | |||
| Maximum character length: | 4 | |||
Source and reference attributes | ||||
| Reference documents: | Standards Australia 2019. Date and time -- Representations for information interchange AS ISO 8061-1:2019 and 8061-2:2019, Standards Australia, NSW | |||
Data element attributes | ||||
Collection and usage attributes | ||||
| Guide for use: | The time of patient presentation at the emergency department is the time of first recorded contact with an emergency department staff member. The first recorded contact can be the commencement of the clerical registration or triage process, whichever happens first. | |||
| Collection methods: | Collected in conjunction with Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY | |||
Source and reference attributes | ||||
| Submitting organisation: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority | |||
Relational attributes | ||||
| Related metadata references: | See also Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
Supersedes Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm
Is used in the formation of Emergency department stay—waiting time, total minutes NNNNN
See also Health service event—presentation time, hhmm
Is used in the formation of Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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